This helps to explain why Chicago makes blind students take Driver's Education classes. A little Nano-Technology and they will be able to drive.
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This will work to strip the DRM, but it doesn't solve the problem for those of use with HDTVs which only use component inputs. Besides, this will require constant updates since the content producers will be shutting it down weekly with new DRM code.
Blu Ray will also suffer this down-conversion fate. This makes my TV useless for any new technology as I am sure all future technologies will implement this restriction.
Let's see, average disc cost = $20 for HD DVD
I would probably buy 100 - 150 the first year alone.
Hollywood loses out on $2000 - $3000 from me, the first year alone.
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OK, to use your analogy of hooking up my hose to my neighbors spigot (using a "Y" adapter I supply) I am using a resource of the other party without their permission.
How is this not stealing?
Your analogy is probably not all that great in this situation either because (at least in every municipality I have lived in) water is a metered item, where my cable modem is not.
Would you not be upset if your neighbor was watering their lawn with water coming from your spigot? Even if you have a well and do not pay a charge for the amount of water consumed? I know I would be pissed if I pulled into my driveway today and saw my neighbor using my spigot to water his lawn.
People need to get one thing straight, if you are taking something of someone else's (whether it is their car, an MP3, bandwidth, water, a spot on the couch) and you do not have their permission it is stealing, plain and simple.
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I seriously hope you are kidding, just because someone doesn't secure a connection you think that gives you permission to use the network? What kind of ethics are we going to have in 20 years when this mentality penetrates even further into our society?
You guys can't be serious, can you?
By your logic: - I'm walking down the street and I see a bike leaning up against the wall, well as long as I don't go very far, and I am not gone long I can ride it to the store to pick up my groceries. The owner of the bicycle was "inept" in not securing so I deserve to ride it. - My neighbor left his front door unlocked so I am going to sneak in and watch a little TV since he has HBO and I don't. I'm not going to take anything, just sit on the couch and watch Sopranos. Why would the owner of the house be upset? He left the door unlocked.
If we want to make the world a better place please start by not being a leech (on society, on others)
Here is their last 10-Q they had a total of $2.6 Billion listed as liabilities and about $7 Billion in Assets (with almost $4.8 B being cash or short term investments) So this is definately possible.
I remember back to something Steve Jobs said back in 97 or 98 when asked how he was going to grow desktop market share. His response was something along the lines of 'We have 6% of the desktop market, Mercedes has 6% of the automobile market. Why aren't you predicting the end of Mercedes?'
iMac, iPod and iTunes really helped them accumulate some iCash.
I have never once in my life had a "drug dealer" come up to me and offer me free drugs of any kind. Now, I have had user friends do this, but more as a courtesy because I happenned to be sitting there with them while they are using.
Unless you are counting licensed physicians, they love giving out free samples of the latest high commission pharmaceutical to get you hooked on the latest advancements in allergy fighting.
According to the World Factbook at cia.gov, there were 194M (1997) telephone land lines in use and 69M (1998) cell phones. Using those figures only 15% of all available phone numbers have been registered on the DNC list. Since I am sure there are quite a few more land lines, and especially cell phones, since those stats were published I would guess the actual percentage of phone numbers registered with the DNC would be nearing 10%.
I don't think the telemarketing industry is being dealt the kind of blow they need with only 41M phones numbers registered.
Unfortunately the DNC requires a confirmation or we could organize and get every phone numbers listed on the list. That would be fun.
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Let's hope that the other studios all follow suit for both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
If not they will save me a bunch of money.
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This helps to explain why Chicago makes blind students take Driver's Education classes. A little Nano-Technology and they will be able to drive. Read More Here
Sorry guys, seems my colocated server couldn't handle the load. Time to find a new colocation service I suppose.
This will work to strip the DRM, but it doesn't solve the problem for those of use with HDTVs which only use component inputs. Besides, this will require constant updates since the content producers will be shutting it down weekly with new DRM code.
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Blu Ray will also suffer this down-conversion fate. This makes my TV useless for any new technology as I am sure all future technologies will implement this restriction. Let's see, average disc cost = $20 for HD DVD I would probably buy 100 - 150 the first year alone. Hollywood loses out on $2000 - $3000 from me, the first year alone. http://www.inaniloquent.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=47 5bef13-f44d-4f70-b922-9c07d8ea632f
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OK, to use your analogy of hooking up my hose to my neighbors spigot (using a "Y" adapter I supply) I am using a resource of the other party without their permission.
How is this not stealing?
Your analogy is probably not all that great in this situation either because (at least in every municipality I have lived in) water is a metered item, where my cable modem is not.
Would you not be upset if your neighbor was watering their lawn with water coming from your spigot? Even if you have a well and do not pay a charge for the amount of water consumed? I know I would be pissed if I pulled into my driveway today and saw my neighbor using my spigot to water his lawn.
People need to get one thing straight, if you are taking something of someone else's (whether it is their car, an MP3, bandwidth, water, a spot on the couch) and you do not have their permission it is stealing, plain and simple.
I seriously hope you are kidding, just because someone doesn't secure a connection you think that gives you permission to use the network? What kind of ethics are we going to have in 20 years when this mentality penetrates even further into our society?
You guys can't be serious, can you?
By your logic:
- I'm walking down the street and I see a bike leaning up against the wall, well as long as I don't go very far, and I am not gone long I can ride it to the store to pick up my groceries. The owner of the bicycle was "inept" in not securing so I deserve to ride it.
- My neighbor left his front door unlocked so I am going to sneak in and watch a little TV since he has HBO and I don't. I'm not going to take anything, just sit on the couch and watch Sopranos. Why would the owner of the house be upset? He left the door unlocked.
If we want to make the world a better place please start by not being a leech (on society, on others)
I think I will stick with the original.
My Periodic Table - unfortunately I developed this when MS ruled the browser world so it will only work in IE.
Here is their last 10-Q they had a total of $2.6 Billion listed as liabilities and about $7 Billion in Assets (with almost $4.8 B being cash or short term investments) So this is definately possible.
I remember back to something Steve Jobs said back in 97 or 98 when asked how he was going to grow desktop market share. His response was something along the lines of 'We have 6% of the desktop market, Mercedes has 6% of the automobile market. Why aren't you predicting the end of Mercedes?'
iMac, iPod and iTunes really helped them accumulate some iCash.
I have never once in my life had a "drug dealer" come up to me and offer me free drugs of any kind. Now, I have had user friends do this, but more as a courtesy because I happenned to be sitting there with them while they are using.
Unless you are counting licensed physicians, they love giving out free samples of the latest high commission pharmaceutical to get you hooked on the latest advancements in allergy fighting.
I had always seen it as:
Integral e^x = ex+c
Might help to write in on a whiteboard.
According to the World Factbook at cia.gov, there were 194M (1997) telephone land lines in use and 69M (1998) cell phones. Using those figures only 15% of all available phone numbers have been registered on the DNC list. Since I am sure there are quite a few more land lines, and especially cell phones, since those stats were published I would guess the actual percentage of phone numbers registered with the DNC would be nearing 10%.
I don't think the telemarketing industry is being dealt the kind of blow they need with only 41M phones numbers registered.
Unfortunately the DNC requires a confirmation or we could organize and get every phone numbers listed on the list. That would be fun.